—MapReduce has become increasingly popular as a powerful parallel data processing model. To deploy MapReduce as a data processing service over open systems such as service orient...
Abstract— Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important problem and many unfair rat...
Qinyuan Feng, Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Yafei D...
Abstract. Prefetching transfers a data item in advance from its storage location to its usage location so that communication is hidden and does not delay computation. We present a ...
Michael Klemm, Jean Christophe Beyler, Ronny T. La...
Tracking and tracing individual items is a new and emerging trend in many industries. Driven by maturing technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and upcoming s...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefa...
— Instruments and sensors and their accompanying actuators are essential to the conduct of scientific research. In many cases they provide observations in electronic format and ...